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The sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. This species is a Pacific salmon that is primarily red in hue during spawning. They can grow up to 84 cm (2 ft 9 in) in length ...
According to scale analysis, Columbia River sockeye return after one year in the Pacific Ocean in the 17-inch range, 2-ocean fish about 20 inches long, and 3-ocean fish might reach 25 inches, with ...
Jul. 19—From staff reports The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week it is opening the sockeye season on Lake Wenatchee starting on July 26 for a season that is expected ...
Salmon can make amazing journeys, sometimes moving hundreds of miles upstream against strong currents and rapids to reproduce. Chinook and sockeye salmon from central Idaho, for example, travel over 1,400 km (900 mi) and climb nearly 2,100 m (7,000 ft) from the Pacific Ocean as they return to spawn.
Oncorhynchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae, native to coldwater tributaries of the North Pacific basin. The genus contains twelve extant species, namely six species of Pacific salmon and six species of Pacific trout, all of which are migratory (either anadromous or potamodromous) mid-level predatory fish that display natal homing and ...
The annual sockeye run at that time was estimated to be approximately 20,000 fish. Artificial enhancement began in 1896 when the State of Washington constructed a hatchery on Baker Lake. This was the first establishment for the hatching of sockeye salmon. [9] The hatchery closed in 1933.
Sockeye is a species of salmon. Sockeye may also refer to: USCGC Sockeye, a United States Coast Guard cutter; Seattle Sockeye, a men's ultimate team based in Seattle, Washington, US; Richmond Sockeyes, an ice hockey team from Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Spawning sockeye salmon in Becharof Creek, Becharof Wilderness, Alaska. Salmon population levels are of concern in the Atlantic and in some parts of the Pacific. Salmon are typically anadromous - they rear and grow in freshwater, migrate to the ocean to reach sexual maturity, and then return to freshwater to spawn.